From Atlantis to Terra Australis, history is full of maps showing continents that never existed. These aren’t fantasy—they were once accepted as fact.

New research from HKU geologists suggests that Earth's first continents were born not from plate tectonics, but from deep ...

Geologists from the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have made a breakthrough in understanding how Earth's early continents ...

The current iteration of the galactic map is caught up with the sequels, featuring the Jedi planet Ahch-To and Sith planet Exegol in the unknown regions of space. It also includes many of the new ...

Biogeographical regions of marine organisms, i.e., their distribution across different habitats, often overlap well with the major global ocean currents. The geological age of the currents plays a ...

All together, that makes a wonderful, very human, mess. Back in the 1960s, the United States Geological Survey stated: “There ...

The question "How many continents are there on Earth?" might seem simple, but when you delve into it, the answer becomes much more complex. While most people around the world are taught that there are ...

The same thing applies to other continents. But the question extends farther, because Sanderlings are common visitors to many islands across the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian oceans. They fly across ...

This is the hundred-year tale of how an unlikely bunch of bottom-dwelling marine critters helped reveal that ocean basins are basically reincarnated every few hundred million years. Eons is ...

Artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon introduce The Map, their 'monumental textile sculpture' now on display at The Dock, Leitrim.

'Oceans Are the Real Continents,' Tommaso Santambrogio’s triptych of contemporary Cuba, is at once a soulful and sterile kind of travelogue.